APPEC Technology Forum 2015 - Low light-level detection in astroparticle physics and in medical application

22 Apr 2015, 12:00 → 23 Apr 2015, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Nymphenburg Castle (Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation)

Announcement Announcement

Booklet Technology Forum ATF_Booklet_2015_web.pdf

Wednesday 22 April

12:00 Registration & welcome lunch

1 Welcome

Speaker: Thomas Berghöfer

Slides ATF2015_welcome_2015-04-22.pdf

Recent Progress on PMTs and SiPMs and to Where we Should Go to

2 Recent Progress on PMTs and SiPMs and to Where we Should Go to

Speaker: Razmik Mirzoyan

Slides Mirzoyan-APPEC-TF-MUC-22-Apr-15.pdf

Afternoon Session

3 Photon Detection in Next Generation IceCube - Single and Multi-PMT Designs

Speaker: Alexander Kappes

Slides pmts_icecube.pdf

4 Photon Detection in Next Generation IceCube - Wavelength Shifters

Speaker: Sebastian Böser

Slides 20150422WOMStatus_small.pdf

5 ET Enterprises

Speaker: Graham Sperrin

Slides ET_Enterprises_Ltd_-_APPEC_Apr2015v8.pdf

6 MELZ FEU

Speaker: Igor Fedorov

Slides MUNICH_2015.pdf

15:30 Coffee Break

Afternoon Session

7 Photomultipliers for large noble-liquid dark matter detectors

Speaker: Teresa Marrodan

Slides Marrodan_TechForum_April2015.pdf

8 SiPMs for noble-liquid dark matter detectors

Speaker: Biagio Rossi

Slides 2015.04.22-brossi_APPEC@Munich.zip

9 Gaseous photomultipliers: a potential alternative for large-scale noble-liquid detectors

Speaker: Lior Arazi

Slides GPMs_APPEC_2015_v4.pdf

10 Photodetection in KM3NeT

Speaker: Uli Katz

Slides APPEC1504_technologyforum_KM3NeT.pdf

11 Bte Bedampfungstechnik

Speaker: Franz-Josef Urban

Slides Bte_Appec_München_2015.pdf

18:00 Conclusion Day 1

19:30 Dinner

Thursday 23 April

Morning session

12 CTA - status of SST-1M camera and of the custom SiPM development

Speaker: Mimmo della Volpe

Slides 2015-04-22-SST-1M_Camera@APPEC.pdf

13 CTA - FlashCam: a fully digital camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Slides GP_APPEC_Muenchen_FlashCam_April2015_final_compressed.pdf

14 Low background single photon detection with a transition edge sensor for ALPS-II

Speaker: Noëmie BASTIDON

Slides APPEC_ALPS_NB_v2.pdf

15 Entropy GmbH: Closed-cycle cryostats for the Kelvin and milli Kelvin temperature range

Speaker: Doreen Wernicke

Slides Entropy

16 Recent advancements in SiPM technology at FBK

Speaker: Claudio Piemonte

Slides FBK-short.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Morning session

17 Hamamatsu - SiPM

Speaker: Simon Kempf

Slides Hamamatsu_-_APPEC.pptx

18 SensL- Sensl Silicon Photomultipliers - Technology Update

Speaker: John Murphy

Slides SensL_SiPM_Update_JMurphy_Katharina_-_April_2015.pdf

19 Developments in PMTs for flourescence measurements of air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Julian Rautenberg

Slides Rautenberg_Auger_20150423.pdf

20 JEM-EUSO - Air-shower Observations from Space: Status and Prospects of the JEM-EUSO Project

Speaker: Andreas Haungs

Slides JEM-EUSO-Haungs-APPEC-April15.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Afternoon Session 1

21 Cryogenic, UV light detectors in the GERDA experiment

Speaker: Joseph Janicsko

Slides Gerda_APPEC.pdf

22 Development of a composite large-size SiPM (assembled matrix) based modular detector cluster for MAGIC

Speaker: Alexander Hahn

Slides Hahn_public.pdf

23 SiPM performance: key factors and trade-offs, possible improvements and limitations

Speaker: Sergey Vinogradov

Slides Vinogradov_-_APPEC_2015_-_SiPM_performance.pptx

24 Laser Components GmbH: Low light-level detection with Avalanche Photodiodes

Speaker: Stephanie Grabher

Slides Low_light-level_detection_with_Avalanche_Photodiodes.pdf

15:00 Coffee Break

Afternoon Session 2

25 APPEC and the funding agencies

Speaker: Franke Linde

Slides APP-ATF-Munich-April2015_klein.pdf

26 perspectives & discussion

Final discussion